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THE SIXTH BOOK OF 

FRANCIS LO. VERVLAM 

VICO U NT St ALB AN. 
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DIGNITt ^ND ADVANCEMeNT 

OF LF ARNING^ 


To the KING. 


CAP. I. 

1 The Partition of the Art of TtAdition into the 'Dotfrine of theOr^ 
gan of Speech . The Doifrineof the Method of Speech^ Andthe Do* 

SiritH of the lllufYAtion of Speech, ^ The Partition of the Do- 
Brine of the Organ of Speech j trtto the Knowledge of the Notes of 
things'^ of Speaking‘s and ofWriting ; of which the two UH conflttnte 
Grammar, and the Partitions thereof The Partition 
Knowledge of the Notes of things -sinto Hteroglyphiques 5 And inte 
char alders Read, II. A fecond Partition of Grammar , tnto Lrte-^ 
rarie\andPhilofophicall. Til. An Aggregation of Poefte^referring 
to Meajure , unto the Knowledge of Speech . An Aggregation of tht 
Knowledge ofCyphers to the Knowledge of Writing* 

■ E R T AIN L Y any man may affume the liber¬ 
ty {Excellent King) if he bclohumourdj tojeft 
and laugh at himfelfe, or his owne Projects. 

Who then knowes whether this worke of ours 
be not perchance a Tranfenpt out of an Ancient Booke 
found amongftche Books of that famous Library of ^ o-dtDsdH 
Qor^ a Catalogue whereof M, Fra, Rabelais hath collected? honPam^gp 
For there a Book is found entitled Formica a ium Arti- 

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UM j wee have indeed accumulated a lide heape of 
fmall Dit ^; and laid up many G/nines of Arts and Sciences 
therein,whereto Ancs may creepcsand there repofe a while, 
and To betake themfelvcs to new labours . Nay the wifeft of 
Vtov.C. KmgsfendstheJlothfull y ofwhat ranke orqualitieioever, 
unto the Ants; and thofe we define to be Jlotbfull , whofeonly 
care is toliipe uponthe maine ftockybut not to improve it by (owing 
the Qround of Sciences over agame/nd reaping a new HarVefi, 

I 'Now let Hi come unto the Art of Delivery y orofExpref 
fing^ and Transferring thofe things which are Invented j Judged-^ 
and laid up in the Memory ^ whichy by agensrall name , we will 
This com prehendcch ink all Arts touching 
Words, 3c Speeches^ for though Reafn bey&s it were ^the Soule 
of Speech > yet in the manner of handling^^i^/^w and Speech 
fhoLild be feparates even as the Soule and the ^ody arc. We 
will divide thefe Sciences into three ?2ertS‘^tntothe 

Knowledge concerningthe Organ of Speech • into the Knowledge 
concerningthe Method of Speech i and into the Knowledge con^ 
cerningthe Illuflration or Ornament of Speech. 

§ The Kjiowiedge concexning the Orgm of Speech gene¬ 
rally receiv’d , which is alfo called ^rammer^ hath two 
Dc Inter. P^tcsjihe one of Speech • the other of Writing • For AriUotle 
prec* faith well 5 Words ate the Images of Cogitations j letters are the 

Images ofwords:,WQ, will affigne both to Qrammer.I^ut to de¬ 
rive the matter fomewhat higher before we come to ^ram- 
meYy and the parts thereof now fet downc»wc mufl: fpeake 
of the Organ of Tradition in generall, For there feemes to be 
other Traditive Emanations befides Words and Letters . For 
this is certaine whatloever may be diftinguifhc into diffe¬ 
rences, fufficient for number j to expreffe the variety of No¬ 
tions ( fo thofe differences be perceptible to fenfe) may be 
the Convoy of the Cogitations from man to man. For we 
fee Nations of different Language to trade with one the o- 
ther,well enough to ferve their turne,by Geflures.'H^y in the 
Pradicc of many,that have bin dumbe and deafe from their 
birth,and otherwife were ingenious, we have feen firange 
Dialogues held between them, and their friends,who have 

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Op Learning. Lib. VL 


255? 


learned their Geftures. Moreover it u now generally knowne 
that in in China>and the Provinces of the high Levant,there 
are at this day in ufe, certaine Really and not Nominall Chara^ 

Bers-^ that isj fiich as exprefle neither Letters pox Words but 
Things y and Notions : in lo much that many Countries that 
underftand not one an others Language, but confent- 
inginfuchkindof QharaBers (which are more generally 
receiv’d amongft them) can communicate one with a- 
nother by fuch Figures written • fo as every Country 
can read and deliver in his owne native tongue, the mea¬ 
ning of any Book written With thefe CharaBers, 

§ Notes therefore of th ings, which without the helpe ^ 

and mediation of Words iignifie Things , are of two forts- de NO- 
whereof the firll fort is fignificant of Congruitie-^ the other 
placitim.Oi the former fort are Hieroglyphiques and Qeflures^ 
of the later are thofe which we c 2 l\\ CharaBers Read . The 
ufe of Hieroglyphiques is very ancient, and had in a kind of 
Veneration i efpecially amongft the ^Egyptians 5 one of the 
moft AncientNations; So that Hieroglyphiques (eem to have 
bin 2l firth-borne writingy and elder than the Elements of Let- 
r^rx-unlelfe^itmaybejthe Z/^^fOToftheEbrcws. xAsfor ^c- 
ftures they are,as it were, Tranfitory Hieroglyphiques. For as 
words pronounced vanifii > writings remaine 5 fo Hierogly- 
pbiquesQefiureSiZxe tranfient, but Pnintedpct- 
manent. As when Coriander being confulted with, how to 
preferve a Tyranny, bid the Melfenger ftand RAbandheml- 
king in a (yardenytipt all the bighefl Flowers- fignifying the 
cutting of,and the keeping low of the Nobility j did as well 
make ufe of a Hieroglyphiques as if he had drawnc the fame 
upon Paper.This in the meane is plain, that Hieroglyphiques 
and ever have (omelimilitude with the thing fig- 

nifiedjand are kind of Smblemes■^whcicfoxt we havenatned 
them the Notes of things from Congruhie.But CharaBers Redd 
have nothing oF Embleme in them • but are plainly dumbe 
and dead Figures,as the Elements oiLetters arej and only de- 
vifed ad Placitums and confirmed by Cuftome s as by a tacite 
agreement. And it is manifeft alfo that there muft needs be 
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a vaft number ofthem for writing j at left fo many as there 
are Radicallwords. Wherefore this portion of Knowledge 
concerning the Organ ofSpeech^which u of the Notes ofThlngs^e 
report De f ic ie nt. And though it may feeme of no great 
ulCjConfidering that Words 3c writings bj Letters s.tcxht moH 
apt Organs of Tradition^ yet we thought good to make men¬ 
tion of it here,as of a knowledge not to be delpifed.For we 
here handle,as it were,the Coynes cfthingsIntelle6iuall^zi\A it 
will not be amifte to know, that as Money may be made of 
other naatter befides Gold and Silver,* fo there may be ftam- 
ped other Notes of things befides "^ords and Letters 

li Let us proceed to Grammer • this doth beare the office 
as it were-i of an Vjl)er to other Sciencesplace not Very honour a- 
ble^yet njery neceffarjj e^eaally feeing that in our age Sciences 
are chiefly drawne from Learned Languages , and not from Mo- 
ther tongues Nor is the dignity thereof to be eftimed meane, 
feeing it fiipplies the place of an Antidote, againft that Ma- 
ledi^ion of the Confuflon of Tongues Surely the Induftry of 
manftrivethto reftore,and redintegrate himfelfe in thole 
Ben editions, which by his guilt he forfeited • and by all o- 
ther Arts, armes and ftrengchens himfelfe againft that firfi: 
Oto. 3 gcnerall Curfe of the Uerility of the earth , and the eating of 
his bread in thefweat of his hr owes But againft that fecond 

Carle,which was the Qonfufion oi Tongues Joe-calls in theaflu 
fiance of Grammer. The ufe hereof in fome Mother-tongues 
is indeed very fmall j in forraine tongues more larger but 
moft ample in fuch tongues,as have ceafed to be vulgarjand 
are perpetuated only in Books. 

% W^ will dhide Grammer into two forts^ whereof the one is 
Literary,the other PhilofophicalL The one is meerly applied 
to Languages, that they may be more fpeedily learned j or 
more corrededly and purely (poken. The other in a fort doth 
minifter, and is fubfervient to *Thilofophie . In this later part 
rSiiet.in lul. which is Philofophicall , we find that Cafar writ Books D e A- 
CKMiMA- ^^alogia j and it is a queftion whether chofe Books han- 
PHiLoso Philofophicall Grammer whereof we fpeake? 

PHANS. Our opinion is that there was not any high and fubtile mat¬ 
ter 







Of Learning. Lib. VI* 


261 


ter in them 3 but only that they delive/d Precepts of a pure 
and peifcift fpcech, not depraved by popular CiiHome; nor 
corrupted and polluted by over-curious afFedtacion; in 
which kind C^efar cxcelfd. Notwithflandingi^dmotiitlit by 
fuch a workc, we have conceiv’d and comprehended in 
our mindiakindofGrammerjthat may diligently enquire, 
not the iAnalogie of mrds onz with another, but xh^Anakgie 
between Words and Things, or Reafon j befides tharj»- 
terpretmtm cf'Nature;^]\\c\i is fubordinateto Logiaue.Ttu- 
ly '^ords arc the foot-Jieps of Reafon j and foot-iteps doe 
give Ibme indications of the Body 3 wherefore we will give 
fbme generall delcription of this. And firft we doe not al¬ 
low that curious inquiry which Plato an excellent man pur- In Craty 
fued,touching the mpftion and originall Etymology of names. 
conceiving it ^ as if words had not binimpofed at fir fly ad Placi- 
turn ; but werefignificantly devhed and deducedfrom a certaine 
reafon and intendment.CtnzivAy an elegant and pliant (pecu¬ 
lation,which might be aptly fain*d andmadelquarctothe 
pLirpolciand by reafon itfeemeth to fearch the (ecrets of An¬ 
tiquity,in feme kind reverend. But yet fparingly mixt with 
truth,and without ismt.But without queftion that would be 
a mod excellent kind of (jrammer (as we (uppofe) if (brnc 
man throughly indruded in many Languages Lear- 

ned^zs Mother-tongues fi\\on\di write aTreacife of the dlverfc 
Proprieties o^LanguitgesfhtWmg in what points every par¬ 
ticular Language did excell ; and in what points it was De- 
p I Cl ENT . For fo Tongues might be enricht and perfedled by 
mtituali intertrafique one with another ; and a mod faire 
Image of fpeech (like the Venus of Apelles) j and a goodly 
patterne for the true expreflion of the inward (enfe of the 
mindj might bedrawne from every part which is excellent 
in every Language And withaU no flight Conjc<dures> but 
fuch as were well worth theobfervation, might be taken 
(which a man perchance would licic think) touching the 
xiaturall difpofitions and cudomes of People, and Nations, 
even from their Languages. For I willingly give eare to Cice¬ 
ro noting that the Grecians have not a word which 

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expreffe this Latine yNOii:>Jnepum-^ becaufciS^iih. he) this 
XDCufofamiliartothe Grecians ^ that they did notfomuch aJac” 
knowledge thetnfehes guilty thenof.Ccn^mly a Cenfure wor¬ 
thy aRoman gravity . And what may that infcrre, chat the 
Grecians ufed fuch a Liberty in compofitionof words^con- 
trarywife the Romans were in this point feverc? Surely a 
man may plainly colled that the Grecians were more fit to 
ftudy ArtSj the Romans to manage affaires ot ftate. For di- 
ftindions of i4rts, for moft part, require compofition of 
wordsj but matters and bufineffejfimple words. But the £- 
hr ewes fo Jhunne Qompoftion ^ that they make choice rather to 
Jlrainea Metaphor toofarrejthanto bring in a Compafition . Nay 
they ufe fo few words, and fb unmingled, that a man may 
plainly perceive by their Tongue, that they were aNazarite 
People 3 andfeparate from other Nations , xAndismtthat 
worthy obfervation (though itmay ferve to abate our high 
conceipt of our owne times ) that Ancient Languages were 
morefullo/Declenfonsfafesfonjugations-^Tenfesyandthe like-^ 
the moderne commonly deftitute of thefe^doe lodfety deliver them^ 
felyes in many exprefions by ^repofitions^and auxiliary yerbes. 
Certainly a man may eafily conjedure {however we may 
pleafe our felves) that the wits of former times were farre 
morcacute and fubtile than ours are. There are an infinite 
number of obfervations of this kind which might make up 
a juft Volume. Wherefore it will not beamiffetodiftin- 
giiifh Grammer Philofophicallfrom metre and literary Gram- 
r/2^r,and to fetitdowneasDEFiciENT.Vnto Grammer2i\(o 
belongs the confideration of all Accidents of wordsj fuch as 
are Meafure j Sound ^ Accent ^ but thofe firft infancies of fim- 
ple Letters ( as,with what Perciiffion of the Tongue, with 
what opening of the mouth • with what drawing of the 
lips, with what ftraining of the throat 5 the found of every 
Particular Letter is to be made) belongs not unto Grammer-^ 
but is a Portion of the knowledge offounds ^to be handled un¬ 
der fenfe and fenfbility . Grammatical!found y whereof we 
fpeake, belongs only to fweetneffe 3c harflineffe of founds, 
ofwhichfomeare common - for there is no Tongue butin 

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Of Learning. Lib. VI. 


26j 


fomc fore fhunnes the coo much overture of concurrent 
Vowels,and the afperities of concurrent Con(bnants.There 
are other refpedtivc founds which arc pleafing , or un- 
pleafing to the care, according to the temper of diverfe 
Nations. The Greeks Tongue is full of Diphthongesi the 
Latine is farre more fparing ; the Spanifh Tongue 
liates fmall founding Letters > and prefently changeth 
them into Letters of a middle tonej the Tongues deri¬ 
ved from theGothes delight in Afpirates ^ there are innu¬ 
merable of this nature > but perchance thefe are more than 
enough. 

in But the meafure of words hath brought us forth an 
immenfe body of Art, namely Poefie ; not in refpecl: of the 
matter (of which we have fpoken before) but in rcfpe6t of 
ftile and the forme of wordsj as Metre or^erfe^ touching 
which the Art is very fmall aud brlefe,but the accelTe of ex¬ 
amples large and infinite. Neither ought that Art ( which 
the Grammarians cAl^Trofodta) to be only reftrainM to the 
kinds andmeafures oif^erfe-^ for there are Precepts tobe 
annexe,what kind of Verfe beft fitteth every matter or fub- 
|e( 51 :. The Ancients applied Herokall'TJerfe to Hifiories o,ni 
LaudatoriesiElegie 5 to Lamentations Jmhiques to Inye^ilrer. 
Lyriques to Songs and Hjmnes. And this wifdomeof the An¬ 
cients is not wanting in the Poets of later Ages in Mother- 
tongues j only this is tobe reprehended, that fomeofthera 
tooftudious of Antiquity have endevoured to draw mo- 
derne Languages to Ancient Meafures (zsHeroique; Ele^ 
giaquesSaphiqueiZnd the reft) which the fabrique and com- 
pofition ofthofe Languages, will notbearej and with- 
all is no lefte harfii unto the eare. In matters of this Na¬ 
ture the judgment of fenfe is to be preferrd before pre 
cepts of Art, as he faith? 

- Qoena Fercuta noflr^ Mart.Ep.^ 

MaSem Qonyiyu quam placutjje Cods. 

Nor is this Art , but the abufe of Art,feeing it doth not per- 
fedt, but perverts Nature. As for Poefe {whether we ^eake of 

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Fables , or Metre ) it is^ as we hay$ faidbefore ^ as a Luxuriant 
Herb brought forth without feed andjprings upfromtheflrength 
and ranknejfe of the foyle . Wherefore h runs along cDery where^ 
and is f > amply fpread 5 as it were afuperfluow labour to be curu 
ousofany^LVXCi^^nsthereinsxJci^ care therefore for this is 
taken already. 

§ As for Accents of Words ^thcvc is no need, that wee 
(peake of fo fmall a matter j unleffe,perchance, fome may 
think it worth the noting, that there hath bin exa<^ ob- 
fervation made of the Accents of Words > but not of the 
Accents of Sentences i yet this, formoft part, isthegenerall 
Cuflome of all men, that in thcclofeof a Period they let 
fall their voice, in a demand they raife it> and many fuch 
likeufages. 

§ As for writing , that is perform’d either by the vulgar 
Alphabet,which is every where receiv’d j or by a fecret and 
private Alphabet, which men agree upon between them- 
felvesj which they call Cyphers. But the Vulgar Orthography 
hath brought forth unto us a Controverfie, and Queflion? 
namely Whether words Jhould be written as they are jpoken , or 
rather after the ufuall manner 3 ut this kind of writing,which 
icemes to be reformed, which is, that writing Jhould beconfo- 
nant to freaking ^ is a branch of unprofitable fubteltiesj for 
Pronunciation it felfe every day encreafes and alters the fa- 
fhioiijand the derivation of words 5 specially from forrain 
Languagesjare utterly defac’d and extinguifht.In briefe,fee- 
ingipnV/Vrj^jaccordingto the receiv’d Cuftomes doth noway 
prejudice the manner ofjpeaking^ to what end fliould this in¬ 
novation be brought in? 

§ Wherefore let us come to Cy?uaks. Their kinds are ma- 
iiy,as Qypharsfmple-^ (fyphars intermix^ with Nulloes^ or non- 
fignificant Characters • Qyphers of double Letters under one 
Character i Wheele-Cyphars 5 Kay-Cyphars ; Qyphars ofwordss 
Others . But the virtues of them whereby they are to be pre- 
ferr’d are Three; That they be ready y and not laborious to write; 
That they be furcyand lie not open to Decipherings And lajllyffit 

be 




Of Learning. Li b. VI. 

be pofsthie, that they may be managed M?ithout fufpitlon. For if Let¬ 
ters Mifsive fall into their hands, that have (bme command 
and authority over thofe that write j or over thole to whom 
they were written; though the Cypher it felfebee lure and 
impofsibleto be decyfherd^ yet the matter is liable to examina¬ 
tion and queftion j unlefle the Cypher be fuch^as may be voide 
ofallfufpition^or may elude all examination. Jsfor tbejhift- 
1/2^ oft examination,there is ready prepared a new and profita¬ 
ble invention to this purpofe 5 which^ feeing it is*eafiiy pro¬ 
cured,to what end fliould we report it, as Deficient. The in¬ 
vention is this : That you have two forts of Alphabets^ one 
of true Letters^ the other oiT>{m-fignificants • and that you like- 
wife fould up two Letters • one which may carrie the fecret, 
another fiich as is probable the Writer might fend, yet with* 
out perill. Now if the Melfenger be ftridly examined con¬ 
cerning the Cypher , let him prefent the Alphabet of ISlonfignifi^ 
cants for true Letters y but the Alphabet of tme Letters for Non- 
Jignificants : by this Art the examiner falling upon the extenor 
Letter, and finding it probable^^fhall liifped nothing of the in^ 
terior Letter, But that jealoufies may be taken away, we will 
annexe an other invention^ which in truth^we devifed in our 
youth, when we were at L^arls : and is a thing that yet fee- 
meth to us not worthy to be loft. Itcontaineth th^highefide- 
gree of Cypher^ which is to fignifie omnia per omnia, yet fo as the 
Tt^rtting infolding , may beare a quintuple proportion to the 
'Writing mfclded ; no other condition or reftridion whatfo- 
ever is required. It fiiall be performed thus: Firft let all the 
Letters of the Alphabet, by tranlpofition,be refolved into two 
Letters onely/or the tranfpofition of twoLetters by five place- 
ings will be fufficient for Differences, much more for 24. 
which is the number of the alphabet The example of fiich 
an Alphabet is on this wife. 


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<i(uiha/Ma<iikacwaci, aciSaS^ 

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aaSfa- . (i^cMa'.<AaaS-aSafci^.{i^a^^, 

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aCCaii.aCCaC> aCCfa^. aCCCC. Caaaa-CaaiA^ 

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BaaSa^JmPjC.baCaif^AaCaSSaCCiSaC^^- 


Nekhcr is ic a fmall matter theft Cypher-Chara&ers have,and 
may performe: For by this At a way is opened, whereby a 
man may exprefle and fignifie the intentions of his minde, at 
anydiftanceofplace,by objects which may be preftntedto 
the eye, and accommodated to the eare: provided thoft ob^ 
jeds be capable of a twofold difference ondly ; as by Bells, by 
Trumpets, by Lights and Torches, by the report ot Muskets, 
and any inftruments of like nature. Bur. to purfue our enter- 
prife, when you addrefft your felfe to write, refolve your in* 
ward-infolded Letter into this ^iAiterark Alphabet, Say the m* 
teriour Letter be 

Fugc. 

Example of Solatm. 


V. §. 5. 


Together 





Of Learning. Lib.VI. 167 

Together with this^you mufl; have ready at hand a©/ fomed 
Alphabet j which may reprefenc all the Letters of the Common AU 
pbabet^ as well Capitall Letters as the Smaller Charaders in a 
double forme, as may fit every ipans occafion. 

Example of a Si fomed Alphabet, 

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Now to the interiour letter,which is Biliterate,you fhall fit 
a biformed exteriour letter, which fhall anfwer the other,let- 
ter for letter, and afterwards let it downe. Lettheexterioiii* 
example be, 

Manen te <V(io^ donee ^enem 
Example of Accommdatlon* 




We have annext likewile a more ample example of the cy¬ 
pher of writing omnia per omnia : An interiour letter, which to 
exprefle, we have made choice of a Spartan letter lent once in 
a Scytak or round cypher^ ftaffe. 


^ert/kao Sm&ms ced^M&&es 
esmim^. 01cpoltmcim 


An exteriour letter, taken out of the firfl: Epiftlc of Ocm^ 
wherein a Spartan Letter is involved. 








Of Learning. Lib.VI. 


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ciiztsns saM^cio omnUms--. JMJnys 
jua-W'£(iii^ido , ^Sanin z^tetmnttu^KL- 
iuc^fumm me/.imn1mnimjVi^uonU 

am ia, im^^fcda/rej <(tm&non c»tt^uis=. 
U* ^ianmii/cjainiuaccm^^^ci^ 
'piim^milnesstacei^mpdm. Stem- 
vallate met: ^nttumm 

^teosJtnt cre^>ee^^efjim^ cmMiU^ 
'TM, (^faiar', cama^^sijuimit^ 

AmuT&rn Setpahs^^s 

^imiw ca(mMa^nmtJ^ms^^S££^^ 

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The knowledge of Qfhath drawne on with it a know¬ 

ledge relative unto it^which is the knowledge ofVifcypherino^ 
of of Difcredng Cyphers, though a man were utterly ignorant 
of the JlpMet of the Cypher, znd the Capitulations of fecrecy 
pafl: between the Parties. Certainly it is an Art which requires 
great paines and a good witt and is (as the other was)conle- 
crate to the CounfeU of Princes: yet notwithftanding by di* 
ligent previfion it may be made unprofitable, though ^ as 
things are, it be of great ufe. For if good and faithfull Cyphers 
were invented 8c pradifed^many of them would delude and 
foreftall all the Cunning of the hecypherer^ whicli yet arc very 
apt and eafie to be read or written: but the rawnefle and un- 
skilfulnefTe of Secretaries, and Clarks in the Courts of Prin* 
ces, is filch,that many times the greateft matters are Commit- 
tod to futile and weake Cyphers. But it may be, that in the e=» 
numeration,and,as it were,taxation of Arts,fome may thinke 
that we goe about to make a great Mufter-rowle of Sciences, 
that the multiplication of them may be more admired- when 
their number perchance may be dilplayed, but their forces in 
fo fhort a Treatife can hardly be tried, for our parts wee 
doe faithfully purfue our purpofe ,'^nd in making* this Globe 
of Sciences, we would not omitt the lefler and remoter Hands, 
Heather hzwc we (in our opinion) touched thefe Arts per- 
fundorily,though curfbrily j but with a piercing ftile extrad- 
ed the marrow and pith of them out of a maffe of mattcr.The 
judgement hereofwereferretothofe who are moft able to 
judge of thefe Jrts, For feeing it is the fafhion of many 
y^’Quld he thought to know much, that every Vaere makeing oHen- 
tatlon of Mrds and outward termes of Arts, they become a wonder to 
the ignorant , but a derifion to thofe that are Majlers of tUfe Arts : 
yre hope that our Labours f?all have a contrarie fuccejfe , Tijhich is, 
that they may anefh the judgment of everyone V?ho is beftvers*d 
in every particular Art,- and be undervalued by the rejl. As 
for thofe Jrts which may feeme to bee of inferior ranke 
and order, if any man thinke wee attribute too much 
unco them; Let him looke about him and hec fliall fee 
that there bee many offpeciall note and great account in 

their 





Of Learning. Lib.VI. 

their owne Countrie, who when they come to the chiefe 
City or (cat of the Eftate, are but of mean ranke and fcarcely 
regarded: fo it is no marvaile if thele fleighter Arts^ placed by 
the Principal! and fupreme Sciences , (eeme pettic things j yet 
to tho(e that have chofen to (pend their labours and ftudies 
in them, they (eeme great and excellent matters. And thus 
much of the Organ of Speech, 



CAP. II. 

I, The Dodirinc touching Method of speech is afsigneda fih- 
fiantiall andjprincipallpart of Traditive knowledge .• Itis entitU- 
\c6yThewifedome ofDeliverie, 2. The divers kindes of 
ihods are enumerated : their Profts and Difprofits are annexed * 
3 . 7le farts of Method two. 



US now come to the do&rine cmcernlng the Method of 
Speech: This hath bin handled as a part of Logick, 

1 fo it hath found a place in ^hetoricke by the name 
o^'Dlfpofitm. But the placeing of/r as apartoftheTraineof 
other Arts, hath bin the cau(e that many things which referre 
unto it, and are ufefull to be knowne, arc pretermils’d: 
wherefore we thought good, to confticute zfuhflantiall and 
pTinclpaU DoBrhie touching Method^ which by a generall name 
we call the Itsifedome of Tradition. The kinds of Method, feeing 
they are divers, we will rather reckon them up, then divide 
them. But for me onely Method, and continued Dichotomies 'ttse 
neede not jpeake much of them -^for it "^as a little Qloude of knott^ledge 
l^hich Tl?as fom dijjperfed. Certainly a triVtall invention^and an infinite 
prejudice to Sciences -^for thefe Dichotomifts,Tfl?/;e« they fi^ouldwefi 
all things to the Lawes of their Method ^ and 'ivhatfoeyer doth not aptly 
fall within thofe Dichotomies they yi^ould either omitt or bow 
contrarie to their mturall inclination ^ they bring it (b to pafie, 
that the K^nels and Grahm of Sciences leapt out^ and th^ dafpe and 

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tnchjz onely the drie and emptie hushes : So tins Ktnde of MetJx)d 
brings forth fruitleffe Compends ^ dejlroyes the JuhJiance of Sch 
ences. 

ir. Wherefore let the firft difference of Method be (et 
downe, to be either Magijlrall or Initiative : neither do wee 
lb underftand the word Initiative , as if this fhould lay the 
ground=»workc, the other raifethe perfect building ol Scim^ 
ces-^ but in a farre different fenft, (borrowing the word 
from lacred Ceremonies) wee call that Initiative "Method, 
which difcloleth and unvailes the Myfteries of Knowledges: 
For Magijlrall teacheth, Initiative infvmateth : Magijlrall requires 
our beliefe to what is delivered , but hitiative that it may 
TRADtxio rather he fuhnitted. to examination. The owe delivers popular 5 d- 
^a^mpadis, gfi- Pqj- Learners; the othr Sciences as to the Sonnes of 
THODus Science : In fummethe one is referred to the ufe of Sciences 
AD Paios.5^^ they now are; the other to their continuation, and 
further propagation. The latter of thefe, feemes to bee a 
deferted and an inclofed path. For Knowledges are now 
delivered, as if both Teacher and Scholler fought to lay 
claime to errour, as upon contraiSt^ For hee that teacheth, 
teacheth in fuch a manner as may bejl hee .beleeved , not as may 
Ike heji examined : and hee that leameth , deftres rather pre- 
fent fatisfaBion , then to expeB a jujl and Jlayedr enquirie • and 
rather not to doubt , then not to erre : So as both the Mafler, out 
of a defire of glorie, is V^atchfull , that hee betray not the Weaken 
nejfe of his knowledge ; and the Scholler , out of an aVerfe dif 
pofition to labour , will not try his owne firengtk But Know¬ 
ledge, which is delivered as a thread to bee fpunne on, 
ought to bee intimated (if it were pofsible) into the rninde of 
another , in the fam method wherein it Was at firjl invented. 
And fiirely this may bee done in knowledge acquired by 
InduBion : But in this (ame anticipated and prevented 
knowledge , which wee ufe , a man cannot eafily fey 
by what courle of ftudy hee came to the knowledge hee 
hath obtained. But yet certainly more or leffe a man may 
revifite his owne ^lowledge, and meafure over againethe 





OfLearning. Lib. VI 




foo tfteps of his Knowledge »and of his confent s and by chis 
meancs fo tranfplant Science into the mind of another, as it 
grew in his owne. For it is in Arts^ as it is in Plants-^ if you 
meane to ufe the *Tlant , it is no matter for the RootSjbut if 
you would remove into another foyle, than it is more aiTu- 
red to reft upon roots than flips. So the Delivery of Know¬ 
ledge,as it is viovfu^cA^dothprefent unto usfaire Bodies indeed 
of Sciences Jfutwithout the ^J^o^Xjgoodjdoubtlefle for the Car¬ 
penter , hut not for the Planter . But if you will have Sciences 
grow>you need not befo follicitous for the Bodies; apply all 
your care that the Roots may be taken up found, and entire, 
with fome litle earth cleaving to them. Of which kind of 
Delivery^the Method of the Mathematiques in thatfubjed:) 
hath fome fliadow, but generally I fee it neither put in ure, 
nor put in Inquiftion-^znd therefore number it amongft De- 
F ic lENTSj and we will call it Traditionem Lampadis^ the De- 
lilpery ofthe Lampe , or the Method bequeathed to thefmnes of 
Sapience. 










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